What are some techniques your CT uses for "connections" for the students to make? Or what are some management skills your teacher uses for the students' sharing time during the morning meeting?
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Classroom Fun with Read Alouds!
With Thanksgiving coming up, my CT has incorporated many Thanksgiving activities into the classroom, including read alouds. This week I got to read about being thankful and what it means to be thankful. It has been very difficult for this bunch of VERY energetic students to sit with a calm body and pay attention. My CT stresses that we keep on each student who tends to "drift away". With this being their first year of school, they are just learning the basics of self control and keeping their body parts to themselves. During my read aloud this week, it was easier to keep the attention of the students being they could relate to the text so well! I asked each student to silently "make a connection" (which is where they interlock their fingers to show that they can relate to what is being read to prevent interruptions). At the end of the book, I asked each student to name one thing that they are thankful for and it went really well! Sharing time is so crucial for my classroom of students, makes for some pretty good laughs sometimes!
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I think this "make a connection" strategy is a great idea! I will try to use it in my read aloud next week, which will be about Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteI am in a first grade class and they are pretty well behaved, but my co-teacher will use catchy phrases to help focus the students when they get off track. For example my CT will say "Hocus Pocus" and the students say "Time to focus". The students react really well and enjoy saying them as well!
In the second grade classroom that I am in, my CT likes to have the students make a connection after we read the book. She likes to have the students listen during the book, and write down something they learned from the book and connect it to something that they have down before. I think this is a really effective approach and something I feel like I can utilize in the future in my own classroom.
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